[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Request (PR#939)

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > 
> > Why is it that you need to copy the string at all?  What's wrong with
> > this?
> > 
> > static void wall(char *str) 
> > { 
> >   notify_conn_ex(&game.game_connections,-1,-1,E_MESSAGE_WALL, 
> >                  _("Server Operator: %s"),str); 
> > }
> 
> Well, I guess because we don't know that str is safe?

What do you mean, "safe"?  It's limited to the MAX_LEN_CMD.  I think you can
assume that a function that takes a C string as an argument will get a C
string.